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Statistics Mental Health in Australia
Statistics Some statistics from a recent presentation on health issues of Australian 13-24 year olds. Births to teenage mothers Year Married Not-married 1971 20,281 9,951 1981 7,736 10,076 1991 2,593 12,048 2001 1,110 10,706 (Married numbers in above table do not include de facto relationships) In South Australia in the period 1995/99, 53.8% of all […]
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[PS. Can anyone verify this?] Question 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion? Read the next question before looking at the answer for this one. […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [30]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 030, 25-31 March 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News reports Aboriginal issues On 19 November 2004, Aboriginal man Mulrunjie Doomadgee was found dead in a police cell on Palm Island. The inquest into his death […]
Bible Quiz Doping Probe
Can you believe this??? LENEXA – Eleven-year-old Todd Bradley was a Bible Quiz wunderkind, leading his church’s team to the finals three years in a row and winning the championship in 2004. But in February, urine tests revealed that Bradley and three other team members had been taking “quiz cocktails” – performance-enhancing drugs which improve […]
Vilification Laws and Religious Freedom in Australia
Enforcing Tolerance: Religious Vilification Laws in Australia Patrick Parkinson Professor of Law, University of Sydney 1. Australia as a Multicultural Society Australia as a migrant nation Australia in the 21st century is a complex, multicultural society. Apart from its indigenous community, which is only about 2.4% of the population,[1] Australia is […]
Fallacies
Fallacies http://www.iep.utm.edu/f/fallacies.htm, found on 4 May 2005 A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning. The alphabetical list below contains 163 names of the most common fallacies, and it provides explanations and examples of each of them. Fallacies should not be persuasive, but they often are. Fallacies may be created unintentionally, or they may […]
Same-sex relationships
Statement from The Church of the Province of Southern Africa ACNS 3976 | SOUTHERN AFRICA | 06 MAY 2005 Statement from The Church of the Province of Southern Africa Statement from the Anglican Church on Marriage and Same-Sex Relationships in the light of the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa in […]
Max Weber Goes Global
——————————————————————————– Michael Novak ——————————————————————————– Copyright (c) 2005 First Things 152 (April 2005): 26-27. In the century since Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the book has been subject to severe and sustained criticism, much of it justified. Yet reflecting on its thesis in the light of worldwide economic developments during […]
Straights and Homosexuals
Thomas Schmidt writes in his book, Straight and Narrow? “Those persons who cannot speak calmly and compassionately on this subject (homosexuality) need to keep their mouths shut. They need to stay away from microphones and TV cameras.” Gordon Dalbey writes, “The conservative temptation simply to condemn and reject the homosexual man not only hinders his […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [31]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 031, 1-7 April 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News & opinion Aboriginal & indigenous issues The Aboriginal man who used his life story to sue for compensation for his loss as a member of the […]
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